On 27/01/2020 19:04, Andy Burns wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> druck wrote:
>>
>>> In practice the system will appear to hang for a while, possibly a
>>> long while, until applications which require more memory either exit
>>> cleanly or crash, freeing up some memory and/or swap.
>>
>> Er no. calls to malloc() will fail and serious errors in applications
>> will happen.
>
> Or the OOMK will "off" a greedy process or two :-(
>
thats a serious error


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